celestial

Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and
Functions

Contains a number of common astronomy conversion routines, particularly the HMS and degrees schemes, which can be fiddly to convert between on mass due to the textural nature of the former. It allows users to coordinate match datasets quickly. It also contains functions for various cosmological calculations.

News

v1.0

Not released on CRAN.

v1.1

FEATURE: Added support for many more ways of specifying deg2dms outputs, e.g. 2d34m45.5s and 2:34:45.5. Code can also take string versions of HMS and DMS coordinates and convert them back to degrees.

v1.2

FEATURE: Added cosmological distance calculator and a sky area calculator.